By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly voted 122 to 13 on Friday to demand an immediate cessation of hostilities in Syria, humanitarian aid access throughout the country and an end to all sieges, including in Aleppo. Thirty-six countries abstained in the vote on the Canadian-drafted resolution on the nearly six-year-old Syrian conflict. General Assembly resolutions are non-binding but can carry political weight. ...

Dylann Roof showed no emotion the day after gunning down nine black churchgoers in Charleston, according to a confession video shown to jurors Friday in his US federal death penalty trial. There were neither tears nor anger in the two-hour taped confession, during which Roof, then 21, stared straight ahead with his hands in his lap. The video marks the first time the public hears Roof speak at length about the grisly June 17, 2015 attack at "Mother Emanuel," the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the US South.